Craig Norman (NGIA President) and Vince Wylaars (NGINZ President) sign MoU. Glenn Fenton (NGIA Vice President) and Kate Hillier (NGINZ Vice-President) observe.

The Executive of Nursery & Garden Industry Australia (NGIA), representing the industry at a national level, and the Executive of the Nursery and Garden Industry Association of New Zealand (NGINZ) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the NGINZ Conference.

The purpose of the MoU was to encourage both parties to work closer together to:

• Promote and further the interests of the nursery and garden industry and allied industries in the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand.
• Assist and/or to promote horticultural education, skills development and employment opportunities in the area of lifestyle horticulture.
• Work together to identify areas of research that may be beneficial for cooperation between countries.
• Promote, seek or oppose legislation or other measures that may affect the interests of nurserypersons, garden industry or allied industries.
• Arrange for distribution to industry stakeholders and members, information and commodities deemed necessary for the development of the associated trades.
• Maintain dialogue with all Government and semi-government departments in the advancement of technical data covering the nursery, landscape-horticultural and allied fields of activity as it relates to markets and potential trade.

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Horticulture Australia Limited has introduced a Leadership training program for current and emerging leaders within Horticulture. This program is funded from the Across Industry funds and will be run by Strategic Business Development Pty Ltd. The training will be a mix of face to face, group and online sessions. Applications were called from all Horticulture Industries and there were over 90 applicants. The Nursery Industry has fared very well in the selection process with the following individuals selected to partake in the program.

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The National Urban Forest Alliance (NUFA) is supporting one day i-TreeECO Australia training seminars in all capital cities. The seminars are designed to provide participants with an overview of the i-Tree ECO software and its application. NGIA is a Platinum Partner of the NUFA which was recently formed to promote the growth and recognition of the urban forests in Australian cities and regional centres.

i-TreeEco is part of a software suite of urban forest analysis tools (referred to as i-Tree) that provides information ranging from environmental benefits, canopy and land cover, stormwater analysis, species selection and storm damage management. It is designed to use field data from complete inventories or randomly located sample plots to quantify urban forest structure, environmental effects, and environmental and monetary value to communities.

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To download a copy of the Nursery Industry Annual Report 2011/12  CLICK HERE

The new Your Levy at Work website has been created as a means to distribute information and news on levy funded programs directly to stakeholders.

The site allows for 24/7,  ‘real-time’ access and sharing of levy information whilst also generating a monthly email of recent posts to all those subscribed to receive it.

You will receive a monthly email of recent posts by either signing up directly  (http://eepurl.com/hPZvI) , or as a previous subscriber to ‘NGIA Clippings’ which has now been super-seeded by this e-news publication.

Regular updates will also be posted to the NGI Facebook and Twitter accounts.

For further information please contact info@ngia.com.au